Research Catalog

Title

Public sector management : theory, critique and practice / edited by David McKevitt and Alan Lawton.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKevitt, David.
• Lawton, Alan.
• Open University.

Description

x, 306 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides an overview of the theory and practice of public service management. Using a number of key contributions to the field, the text outlines the social, political and economic contexts in which management has emerged as a central issue in the public sector of industrial nations.

Series Statement

B887 reader

Subject

• Public administration
• Organization
• Public Sector [MESH]
• Organization and Administration [MESH]
• Organization and Administration
• Public Sector
• Organization
• Politics and government
• Public administration
• Effizienz
• Management
• Politische Theorie
• Staatstätigkeit
• Öffentlicher Sektor
• Collectieve sector
• Overheidsmanagement
• Administration publique
• Services publics > Grande-Bretagne > Gestion
• Services publics > Gestion
• Great Britain > Politics and government
• Great Britain

Note

• "B887 reader"--P. [4] of cover.
• Published in association with the Open University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The Context of ideas. Rationalism in politics / Michael Oakeshott -- Governmentality / Michel Foucault -- Limited government / John Gray -- The Criterion of efficiency / H. Simon -- Management in the public domain / John Stewart and Stewart Ranson -- Professional ethics, government agenda and differential information / Leonard Wrigley and David McKevitt -- Control and implementation. Charges as contested signals / Richard Rose -- Organizational status and performance : summary of the findings / Andrew Dunsire, Keith Hartley and David Parker -- Lawyers go to hospital / Joseph M. Jacob -- Accounting and the pursuit of efficiency / Anthony Hopwood -- Implementation and ambiguity / Vicky Eaton Baier, James G. March and Harald Sætren -- Investigating policy coordination : issues and hypotheses / L. Challis [and others] -- Responsiveness and performance. Interpretation and implications / Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein -- Performance indicators : 'backseat driving' or 'hands off' control / Neil Carter -- Doing well while doing good : dilemmas of performance measurement in nonprofit organizations and the need for a multiple-constituency approach / Rosabeth Moss Kanter and David V. Summers -- The Welfare state, the professions and citizens / Margareta Bertilsson -- Consumerism and the public sector : how well does the coat fit? / Jenny Potter -- Organizational culture ; origins and weaknesses / V. Lynn Meek -- Personnel and public management / Hans Wegggemans.

ISBN

• 0803977131
• 0803977123
• 9780803977129
• 9780803977136

LCCN

93087485

OCLC

• ocm30438270
• 30438270
• SCSB-2053074

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library